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COVID-19 Sees More Online Grocers Accept EBT SNAP Payments For Food

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Online grocers are increasingly allowing underprivileged consumers to use EBT payments (the modern equivalent of food stamps) at a time when the pandemic has made going to the store too risky for many shoppers. The move by the two companies is just the latest initiative in a growing trend of EBT acceptance for online grocery shoppers.

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NY Man Gets Jail Time For $390K Card Skimming Scheme

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A New York man, 39-year-old Bogdan Rusu, was sentenced to 60 months in prison on charges of using credit card skimming tactics to steal $390,141 from various New Jersey banks, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) report. The case was prosecuted by Homeland Security Investigations, along with agents of the U.S.

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PSCU’s Lumin Digital Helps Mutual Security Credit Union Go Digital

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PSCU’s Lumin Digital has converted over 10,000 Mutual Security Credit Union digital users to a cloud-based platform, Lumin Digital said in a press release on Tuesday (Dec. Our team worked in close coordination with the Lumin Digital team to execute a well-orchestrated conversion for our members.

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Ballard Spahr partner, Phil Yannella, authors book on data breach and privacy litigation

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Phil Yannella, Ballard Spahr litigation partner and Practice Leader of Ballard’s Privacy & Data Security Group, recently authored a treatise on data breach and privacy litigation. Ballard Privacy & Data Security Partners Kim Phan and Greg Szewczyk are contributing authors. Despite renewed focus by the U.S.

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Why State And Local Governments Struggle To Shred The Paper Check

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The state of Illinois is still considering digital disbursements, though innovation remains slow. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is allowing residents to schedule and receive reoccurring payments to their credit or debit cards in a bid to simplify the child support payment process.

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Pandemic Scammers Robbed US Consumers Of More Than $77M

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The top five scam categories were online shopping, travel and vacation, credit card, financial institutions and text messages, the FTC data said. the Illinois-based insurance company, said the best offense is a good defense. “We know fraud is historically an under-reported crime.”. The median loss was $270.

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Why Voice Authentication’s Doing Prison Time

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What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. Authorities and prison technology companies say this mass biometric surveillance supports prison security and fraud prevention efforts.”. New technology often starts out at the U.S.

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